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Genl, may fully understand this case I will rehears [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] all the circumstances,- to wit- something over a Month since Robert, rented a part of the house he owns and lives in, to Taft and his wife, (they have one small child). Mrs Taft had borrowed some Books from Roberts, and Taft, had borrowed a scribe all,- the day of the alleged insult Roberts steped in there to get his all, and the Child came up to Roberts and he talked to it, (in that conversation she alledges that he insulted her.) Roberts swares positively that he had no such thought or intention and was only chatting with the child, and asked her if he could get the child to go in his room with him, Roberts is an old man over 70 years of age and proved his character unblemished as regards morrality, but unfortunately for him (at that time) he was known to have been and still is a unyealding Union man, and for that and a closeness of dealing he is quite unpopular, so that in the face of the evidence that Taft was seen by numerous persons, beating him and his face and head awfuly brused up. The Mayors decision was not Gently, and M. Roberts, to pay costs. Taft is a man in the prime of life very stout, and an ex. Confte. Souldier. I don't think any one believes Roberts guilty of an intentional to insuld [insult] to the woman. The Mayor himself just before the trial told me that he did not.
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